vokabre.com - Postcard: Francois Junod Android No.2
Postcard: Francois Junod Android No.2
[Posted: 2026-05-29 20-55 UTC±0] 

Square painting in watercolour with ink lines, an automata doll figure of a boy sitting on a drawing table, the boy wears long jacket with puffy collars, short trousers, is barefoot, has curly grey hair. In the right hand of the boy is a pen.

The composite scan of the whole back of the postcard, on the left is the painting described before. Above it is a postal cancellation. On the right above the address superimposed is the portrait of the "Snake Charmer" automata. To the right from the portrait is "By Air Mail" sticker, and below one can see "Israel" in English and Japanese. Above is a 100 yen stamp with a pink flower on a pink background, on top of it is a special postmark of Tokyo International Post Office, with Fuji design, and Universal Postal Union logo on the right.

Android No.2 (Painter) by Francois Junod (1997)
from Kyoto Arashiyama Orgel Museum (京都嵐山オルゴール博物館)
a painting in ink and watercolour on a postcard

The postcard for the painting is also from Kyoto Arashiyama Orgel Museum, a portrait of “Snake Charmer” automata by Roullet & Decamps. Sent from Tokyo International Post Office (東京国際郵便局) with a special fuke-in (風景印) postmark.

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🎨 Patreon-only high-res scan with the full story: https://www.patreon.com/posts/159593747/
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